[frgeek-michiana] Warehouse Report - 10/31/2007
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:54:49 -0500
:: New Volunteer, Maybe Two
Jim C. from LaPorte attended his first FGM session. He likes it a lot.
Here's a coincidence. His wife, Karren, attended a lecture by Richard
Stallman at a Greens national conference. Karren was impressed with
Stallman's arguments for Free Software. She too is likely to volunteer
some time at FGM.
:: 7 Degrees of John Gnubie
Jim and Karren know John Billings, aka John Gnubie, who now lives in New
Zealand. It is a small world.
:: Clean Up
Jim and I swept and vacuumed the deman room and part of the server room.
Forest and I delivered two gaylords of our plastic to another recycler.
We lose the gaylord/skids and must replace them, but get rid of plastic
at no further cost.
:: FreeBox Count for Perley and Modems
I counted 24 completed FreeBoxes in our inventory at one point last
night. I think Mike and Forest added 3 more later. We are about half way
to the 60 units needed for the Perley School project.
The Perley PTA coordinator, Kristal, called me today. She has a PTA
meeting scheduled for next Monday and another in December. She will
raffle 2 FreeBoxes as door prizes at each meeting. I will hold a FreeBox
class in December for the Perley winners.
We have a up to 4 weeks to research and test dialup modems, find a
vendor and order stock for Perley FreeBoxes. Mike will search our list
archive for previous posts on dialup modems for Vector Linux. He will
also see what drivers are currently available in Puppy Linux. The Puppy
project leader has set a goal of binary compatibility with Slackware;
this will be a boon for us since Puppy has more advanced dialup
capabilities than Vector Linux or Slackware.
Kristal is OK with charging Perley recipients our costs for dialup
modems if the fee is around $10.00. She asked about printers, and I
advised her not every printer is compatible with Vector Linux.
Recipients should check with us before buying a printer. We need to
prepare a list of low cost printers which are compatible with CUPS on VL
5.8 for FreeBox recipients.
VL 5.9-beta2 has been released. I don't know whether this release will
remain in the VL 5.x tree or morph into VL 6.0. VL 5.x is based on Slack
11. VL 5.9-beta2 is based on Slack 12. Once we know what the final
release version will be - I think VL 6 - we need to decide whether to
upgrade the 24+ FreeBoxes set aside for Perley to the new VL Standard
Edition.
http://www.vectorlinux.com/article.php?sid=27
:: Data Center Pickup
The network admin from the data center picked up the ATX mid-tower cases
and the server cases. He gave me cash for the server racks and the cases.
:: Bathrooms
As soon as we empty the stored material in the bathrooms in our offices,
the plumbing will be restored. We should start with the women's room
because there is a men's room available elsewhere in the plant, but no
women's room anywhere but our office.
This is a priority. The lease holder, our benefactor, asked me to clear
out the women's bathroom. He has a female employee who is tiring of
sharing a bathroom with the men in the plant.
:: New Rack Space Coming
Expect new rack space soon. Also expect to do a lot more deman work when
it happens. The project to add rack space by our office will resurrect
in about 3 weeks. Our warehouse benefactor needs more manufacturing and
storage space for a new hose and fittings contract and wants to clear
our gaylords from the rack space at the other end of the warehouse. They
can't move our material until new rack space is erected.
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